SummerWorks Exchange

SummerWorks Exchange is a series of events to facilitate artist and community growth, to strengthen the ecology of live performance in Canada, and expand our dialogue and collaboration with the international arts community. Including training and networking opportunities between artists and curators from Canada and beyond, the Exchange is the place where we come together to share and connect, confront the big questions facing our community today, and make plans for the future.

This year the SummerWorks Exchange is offering workshops, presentations, and an open space sessions focused on ‘systems change’: looking at how to create conditions for change, enact change and alternative models for producing, collaborating, and making work. Artists will also have the opportunity to pitch new works in open studio and social settings.

Artists, Arts workers, and members of the public can purchase a ticket that gives them access to all events during the day to any or all of the three days of the SummerWorks Exchange. Click the Tickets + Info button below to see more details on each days programming, including tickets. Accredited Industry Professionals can access all three days of the Exchange with their Industry Pass

ASL Interpretation will be provided for all SummerWorks Exchange events.

The SummerWorks Exchange has been made possible by the Toronto Arts Council’s Open Door Program, with additional support from the Ontario Arts Council Market Development Initiative.

Participants will have the opportunity to choose between concurrent workshops providing tools for generous listening, decolonizing performance practice, and equitable engagement within cross-cultural collaboration.

Day Two – TUESDAY AUGUST 14

An opportunity to see new works in development. Six artists have been selected to share short excerpts of their next big idea with industry professionals and the general public. This is a seeding ground for new ideas and new creative relationships – a place for you to discover your new favourite artists. Coffee and lunch are provided.

An opportunity to meet with and ask questions of funders before the next grant deadline as well as learn more about resources and initiatives impacting the community including ArtsVote and ArtistProducerResource.com. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Can we keep doing this? Change comes when a community rallies together with an idea, time, and resources. It is time to shift the ways we make and work together. This is a space to talk about what we will do and find folks to do it with. Do you have an idea that needs more momentum? Bring it here to find collaborators and resources.

Community Meal & Porch Sitting

Converge at an outdoor community meal. An opportunity to reflect on learning, identify lingering questions, and make plans for future connection.